As a stay-at-home mom living in Garden City, N.Y., with two babies, Vera Sweeney needed an outlet, a place to pour her creative energy, a place to indulge her obsession with celebrity gossip.

One of Missouri Southern State University’s and Crowder College’s strongest supporters passed away Saturday. Robert W. Plaster, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, died at his home in Lebanon. He was 78.

WASHINGTON - Monique Blake won't be shopping for new clothes. William Acosta got rid of his cell phone. Paula Rockwell put off buying a home. In ways both large and...

Several years ago, when Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food, visited the San Francisco chapter of his international organization, he gave them this advice: Mike Eaton harvests tomatoes from among the 37 varieties that grow in his Galt garden.

One of the latest real estate trends is fractional ownership, an increasingly popular way for people to have the best vacation or second home properties at a fraction of the cost. In the Northern California wine country, there is a new kind of fractional